Exposed: Bryan Adams is not only a rock star, it is a great photographer

2/08/2013
ISO 1200 Magazine
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The Canadian Bryan Adams counts undoubtedly internationally to one of
the most important rock musicians. But that Bryan Adams is also a
gifted photographer is not (as yet) widely known. In addition to his
passion for music, his love of art—and of photography in particular—has
grown over the past few decades.

With the exhibition Bryan Adams –
Exposed, the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf will show a comprehensive
cross-section of the Canadian’s best works. This will be the first time
this collections goes on display in Germany.

‘The subjects of my first film, in the mid 1970s, were concert photos
of the Beach Boys, parking lot walls, my girlfriend in the bathroom, my
Mom, my piano, just everyday things, but exactly the things I could see
around me.’ says Adams

Over the years, the subjects of Adams’ photos changed.
Numerous friends, celebrities, and super stars posed for him including
Amy Winehouse, Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Mickey Rourke
in the bathtub, or Dustin Hoffman wearing a suit and fishing in the
sea. In 2002, on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth II’s golden jubilee, he
was selected to make a portrait of the queen. The resulting photo later
appeared on a Canadian stamp.

The most important series of works, however, is one group of British
soldiers who have been hardly wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. This
intimate side of the "Faces of War" impressed by an unsuspected ease in
without loosing the seriousness.